Extended application of 99mTc-mebrofenin cholescintigraphy with cholecystokinin in the evaluation of abdominal pain of hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal origin

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 346-354

  Krishnamurthy, Gerbail T ^a   Krishnamurthy, Shakuntala ^a  

^a Tuality Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

99mTc mebrofenin; Abdominal pain; Cholescintigraphy; Gallbladder; Irritable bowel syndrome; Sincalide

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE; MEBROFENIN TC 99M;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DYSKINESIA; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CYSTIC DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CYSTIC DUCT SPASM; DUODENOGASTRIC REFLUX; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER SCINTISCANNING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; SEPTATE GALLBLADDER; VATER PAPILLA STENOSIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BILIARY TRACT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; IMINO ACIDS; LIVER; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; SINCALIDE;

EID: 77951062381     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32832fa2c0     Document Type: Article

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